3  Intro to GitHub

3.1 GitHub PAT for R

  • To create a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) to be allowed more downloads from GitHub per hour run in R

    install.packages("usethis")
    library(usethis)
    create_github_token()

3.2 GitHub CLI

  • GitHub CLI stands for command line interface for operating GitHub
  • Installation instructions are here
  • But I don’t recommend using this